Summary
In this chapter, we looked at the end-to-end request processing architecture of IIS 7.0. IIS 7.0 includes several core components that work together to execute the HTTP request. These components are as follows:
HTTP.sys, the kernel-level HTTP protocol listener
World Wide Web Publishing Service (W3SVC), the HTTP listener adapter
Windows Process Activation Service (WAS), which provides process activation and management
Configuration store, the distributed XML file–based configuration hierarchy that contains both IIS and ASP.NET settings
Worker process, w3wp.exe, the self-contained user mode process that executes HTTP requests and generates responses
Each worker process serves one application pool. An application pool can be configured in one of ...
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